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Columban Way Walk from Navan Fort to Armagh City
On Tuesday 10 September in pleasant autumn sunshine the core group of walkers who had walked from County Carlow were joined by Archbishop Eamon Martin and Archbishop John McDowell and a group of young people from St Catherine’s College and St Patrick’s Grammar School for the walk from Navan Fort to the cathedrals in the ecclesiastical capital…
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Columban Way Walk 2024 page now live
For full details of this year’s inaugural walk of the Irish Columban Way please visit the walk page linked below.
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Archbishops of Armagh Sign the Columban Charter of Partnership
Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, and John McDowell, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, signed the Columban Charter for Partnership on Tuesday 9 July. The Columban Charter of Partnership supports the development of pilgrimage, cultural and scientific activities relating to Columbanus, Gall and their followers in all the European regions and countries where their…
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Columbanus Community Folk Festival 2024
This year Ards CCÉ will once again be hosting its amazing folk festival and what a festival it’s going to be with many local and international artists in the line-up! The festival, which is sponsored by Ards and North Down Borough Council, will run from Sunday 9th to the 16th June inclusive and incorporate a…
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Columbanus Volunteers at Whitespots
On Saturday 4th May students from QUB Knights of Columbanus were joined by members of Friends of Columbanus Bangor and rangers from Ards and North Down Council in their mission to clean up the start of the Columbanus Way at Whitespots Country Park. The main task was to remove plastic tree guards and their associated…
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9th Bangor (St Gall’s) Scout Group explore their heritage
On Saturday 9th March 2024 a group from the 9th Bangor (St Gall’s) Scout Group took part in a heritage walk from the North Down Museum to St Gall’s Church on the Crawfordsburn Road via the Coastal Path. Scout leader Jack Denvir organised the walk with the assistance of Charlie Reid from Friends of Columbanus Bangor.…
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Columbanus Returns to Bangor
Friends of Columbanus Bangor, in partnership with the Library Service NI, were delighted to welcome two distinguished academics to Bangor Carnegie Library. Dr Damian Bracken from University College Cork and Dr Angela Burn, Cultural Officer at the Foreign Office (Dublin) travelled to Bangor to give a talk on the exhibition they curated entitled ‘Ireland and…
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Friends of Columbanus continues to thrive
At the recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Friends of Columbanus Bangor, Deborah Girvan, chairwoman, delivered her annual report stating that 2023 had been another busy year. Activities included walks, talks, lobbying local politicians, workshops and events. She remarked that four events stood out: the launch of the Columban Way Mapping Project in June; the…
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Bangor library to host Columbanus related Exhibition
Bangor Carnegie Library will be the first Northern Ireland venue to host the “Ireland and the Birth of Europe” touring exhibition. It will run for the full month of February in the library exhibition space. For full details see : It is anticipated that the exhibition will eventually travel to Budapest, Hungary; Germany (country-wide); Zagreb,…
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Columbanus Festival 2023 a Great Success
The annual Columbanus Festival to commemorate the life and legacy of Columbanus has been hailed a great success. The bell themed programme attracted people from both within and from outside the Borough with over 750 taking part in the weekend programme.